Colloquium Talk – Huilei Wang
Asymmetries in (c)overt extraction from relative clauses and a linearization-based account Quantifiers usually give rise to scope ambiguity when two or more occur in the same clause: the surface scope...
Phonetics Seminar – Megha Sundara
Campbell Hall 2122AMegha Sundara “How do infants learn phonotactics?”
Colloquium Talk – Tanya Bondarenko
Lessons about clausal embedding from long-distance wh-dependencies Abstract: In this talk I argue with the data from Georgian that syntax and semantics of long-distance wh-dependencies provide support for the view...
Phonetics Seminar
Campbell Hall 2122AReview of ASA abstracts
Syn/Sem Talk – Ramiro Caso
2122 Campbell HallA talk by Ramiro Caso, a philosopher/linguist visiting us from Buenos Aires. Towards a dynamic account of deontic modals I investigate the semantic and pragmatic behavior of deontic modals from...
Colloquium Talk – Rachel Walker
Position-sensitive transparency in vowel harmony: The role of prosodic gestures and locality A recent crosslinguistic study of positional privilege in vowel harmony observed that vowels in a stressed syllable may...
Phonetics Seminar – Zion Mengesha
Campbell Hall 2122AZion Mengesha (Dept. of Anthropology)
Syn/Sem Talk – Adrian Brasoveanu
2122 Campbell HallThis week's Syn/Sem features a practice SALT talk by Adrian Brasoveanu (UCSC). Counterfactual Interpretation as Search for Coherence (In a Learned Model of the World) "Once there was a little...
Faculty Meeting
2122 Campbell HallPhonetics Seminar
Campbell Hall 2122AASA poster presentation practice Coralie Cram (representing A. Boulom, N. Cuymon, J. McGahay, Z. Metzler, E. Montilla, V. Shetty, J-L Siah, & M. Cychosz) - “A systematic review and meta-analysis...